When using the Nvidia drivers my system always boots into Gnome rather than Cinnamon after I log in. I always have to log out and, without explicitly selecting the cinnamon DE, log back in and I get Cinnamon. I tried using the nouveau drivers again to see if the problem remained but here I didn't have this problem. In this post it's mentioned that there's no hardware acceleration and therefore the system can't boot into cinnamon and boots to gnome instead.I need the nvidia drivers for steam and other games so using nouveau is not an option. How can I make sure the nvidia drivers are properly loaded before I log in?

Karl--P.S.:Have ever tried this?The logon dialogue appears. It has got three icons at the bottom. The middle icon will allow you to select the session type which you want to use, Cinnamon, Cinnmon 2D, Gnome 3, Gnome 3 Fallback. Select "Cinnamon" explicitly and log in.Do you get Cinnamon now?

Old bugs good, new bugs bad! Updates are evil: might fix old bugs and introduce no new ones.

Sorry for not having replied for a few days. Have you tried to select "Cinnamon" explicitly in the logon screen once? (middle icon out of 3)

Your inxi output does not give a hint why Cinnamon should not come up after you logon.My NVidia Geforce 8500 GT does not cause any such problem (Mint 13, NVidia driver 295.40). Neither does the NVIDIA ION VGA (Mint 14, NVidia driver 304.64).Got and installed the NVidia driver 304.64 from the Ubuntu NVidia Swat PPA.

Kind regards,Karl

Old bugs good, new bugs bad! Updates are evil: might fix old bugs and introduce no new ones.

what I've done so far is change /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/cinnamon.sessionHere I changed the line FallbackSession=gnome-fallback to FallbackSession=cinnamon2d so at least I have cinnamon in 2d if I don't feel like loggin in twice.note that on github for cinnamon this is in fact a pull request so the default should be cinnamon2d in future releases.